graphic designer Eastleigh, England
Job description
Title: Graphic Designer
Department: Marketing
Location: Remote / Chandlers Ford
Salary: £29,592
Are you an experienced Graphic Designer, with in-house or agency background?
Are you passionate for branding, typography, and editorial design?
We’re looking for a designer to be part our internal Marketing team – to work in a variety of creative, exciting projects, while maintaining our strong Utilita brand.
What can we offer you?
We offer a range of fantastic benefits. From a competitive salary, bonus up to 10% of salary, contributory pension scheme, to a health care scheme.
As a designer, you’ll be working with our award-winning Energy High 5 campaign, as well as being part of the award-winning My Utilita app team.
At Utilita we prioritise diversity and inclusion. We work hard to offer a workplace where people's differences are valued and recognised. Our goal is to make sure all our staff are being heard, represented and there’s no bias in the way we behave.
What does this role involve?
You’ll be part of a friendly Marketing team, working together within exciting and creative projects.
Day to day, you will:
- work closely with the brand team, ensuring the Utilita brand guidelines are strongly maintained and developed within internal and external projects, web and print;
- receive project briefs and managing our scheduling system, Monday.com;
- liaise with the marketing team, or stakeholders across the business, to understand key messages and objectives.
- produce new marketing collateral for Utilita products or services – such as Utilita Extra, Utilita Football, Utilita Mobile, Utilita Arena, Utilita Energy Hubs, and more. Examples include branding Arenas, billboards, digital ads, reports, booklets, video graphics, branded assets, email graphics, posters, as well as other unique marketing collateral;
- work and developing creative concepts for new Utilita campaigns;
- producing, updating and formatting internal literature from across the business including forms, flyers, internal signage, presentations, and more;
- taking responsibility for all stages in the design process, managing time and budget;
- prepare print-ready artwork and communicating with external suppliers;
- be responsible for Utilita images and graphics, for internal/external events.
Who we are looking for?
We’re looking for a Graphic Designer with experience and a strong portfolio – showing a variety of up-to-date, current examples of work.
The ideal candidate will have a high attention to detail, and passion for typography, branding, and editorial design.
To show a clear understanding of project briefs and requirements, having great organisational and communication skills with stakeholders across the business.
This also includes working closely with the Brand Manager, delivering a high level of brand consistency throughout print and web projects (both internal and external), as well as ensuring the work is delivered on time.
You will be a multi-tasker able to work efficiently under pressure, whilst maintaining focus on the detail and a self-starter who takes initiative to drive projects.
Additional benefits
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
- The opportunity to win tickets to major outdoor events with Utilita Extra –including, gigs and shows at the Utilita Newcastle, Sheffield and Birmingham arenas.
- Discounted employee energy tariffs.
- Access for you and one other to our partnered Unmind App, where you can watch or listen to videos and podcasts or get hints and tips to understand and improve on your mental wellbeing.
- We offer all our staff a paid volunteering day every year plus the chance to be involved in various fund-raising opportunities.
- A health care scheme that includes dental, eye care, treatments, and diagnostics health consultations.
- Death in service, twice your annual salary.
- Employee Assistance Programme with access to counselling support, legal and financial advice 24/7 365 days a year, as well as a GP line and Your Care.
About us
Founded in 2003, Utilita is the first – and still only - energy company created to help households use less energy, by giving them better control via digital technology, including its industry-leading smartphone app (USwitch Awards best app 2018, 2020 and 2022).
Utilita is Britain’s leading Smart Pay as You Go energy provider, with over 800,000 customers, and thanks to having better control, its customers use around 11% less energy than the average bill paying household.
Utilita is committed to becoming a net zero business by 2030 and was named Green Energy Disruptor of the Year at the Better Society Energy Awards in October 2021.
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: £29,592.00 per year
Benefits:
- Canteen
- Company events
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Discounted or free food
- Employee discount
- Free parking
- Gym membership
- Health & wellbeing programme
- On-site parking
- Paid volunteer time
- Referral programme
- Sick pay
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
Supplemental pay types:
- Bonus scheme
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Eastleigh: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Experience:
- Graphic design: 1 year (required)
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Eastleigh
